Carroll Noell Rather and Lee Fisher Floyd Die in Plane Crash
Two people flying a Russian-era aircraft are dead after it went down in a field in Combine Thursday morning. The L-29 Delfin turbojet left Lancaster Municipal Airport and was on a pleasure flight. Before the crash, the pilot was not in contact with air traffic controllers and made no transmissions. Texas Department of Public Safety […]
Texas A&M Student Chandler Small Killed in Texting-and-Driving Crash
A Texas A&M student died in a crash early Wednesday in what police said is another case of texting-and-driving accident. Chandler Small, 19, of Montgomery County, was pronounced dead on the scene of the accident on Highway 30 at the Walker-Grimes county line. The single-vehicle crash happened at about 3:15 a.m. when she was speeding […]
Todd Zingrele Injured in County Crash
A Fittstown man was flown to an Oklahoma City hospital following a traffic accident Tuesday morning. The incident happened at about 8:08 a.m. at the intersection of State Highway 99 and County Road 1640, two miles north of Fittstown. Jason G. Timmons, 31, of Fittstown, was driving a medical equipment van east on CR 1640 […]
Shala Strickland, Troy Larson and McKenly Larson Hurt in Rollover Accident on I-35
A rollover accident Monday on U.S. Interstate 35 left three people, including a 2-year-old child, from Burkburnett injured. At about 8:22 a.m., a Dodge pickup was traveling south on I-35, about five miles north of Clear Lake, when it apparently hit a patch of light snow that had fallen. The pickup’s driver, Shala Strickland, 21, […]
Robert Victorino Jr. and Maria Botello Victorino Die in Ward County Accident
Early Monday’s traffic accident in Ward County claimed the lives of two Alpine residents and injured four others. The accident occurred at around 12:15 a.m. when a 1989 Chevrolet Suburban carrying five people missed the exit at Interstate 20 near mile marker 81 in Ward County. The driver, Robert Victorino, 59, of Alpine, backed the […]
John Bayless in Critical Condition After Motorcycle Wreck
A man is in critical condition following a motorcycle crash in Tyler Sunday afternoon. It was 3 p.m. when a motorcyclist was traveling west at an unsafe speed on Farm-to-Market Road 850, about half a mile west of County Road 21. The operator, John Bayless, lost control of the bike causing it to go into […]
El Paso Officer Angel Garcia Removing Ladder Struck, Killed
An El Paso police officer has been killed after he was struck while trying to remove a ladder in a chain-reaction traffic accident on Interstate 10. Officer Angel Garcia, 27, was outside of his patrol car with the lights flashing early Sunday as he tried to pull a ladder from the road when four vehicles […]
Richard Nogle Dies in Five-Vehicle Collision in North Sulphur
A Newton man was killed in Sunday’s five-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 27 just north of Sulphur near Houston River Road. Preliminary investigation indicated that several northbound vehicles were stopped on Hwy. 27 at around 4 p.m. when a northbound 2000 Ford F-350 driven by Steven Horner, 36, of Westlake struck a stopped 2003 Honda […]
Debra Hardaway Neal Struck by Car, Killed in Red Bird
A woman was struck and killed by a car Saturday night in Red Bird. Debra Hardaway Neal, 57, was taken to Methodist Dallas Medical Center where she later died after a 2009 white Nissan Altima hit her while crossing W. Camp Wisdom Road, near Chaucer Place at about 8 p.m. There is no crosswalk or […]
Reds Prospect Mason Felt Seriously Injured in Texas Crash
A Cincinnati Reds draft pick is listed in critical condition and his father killed after the truck they were driving in overturned Saturday morning in Ozona, Texas. Mason Felt, an 18-year-old 2012 fifth-round draft pick, was driving a 2004 Ford F-150 truck on Interstate 10 west of Ozona when it drifted onto the shoulder and […]